Tony Curtis
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Las Vegas Review-Journal photo
..Most
Colorful Character
BUFFALO JIM BARRIER
Buffalo Jim Barrier is the very definition of a modern Renaissance
man. Owner of Allstate Auto Marine. Columnist for the Las Vegas Mercury
(the R-J's hipper sister publication). Founder of the Buffalo Wrestling
Federation. Curator of Buffalo Jim's Wrestling and Boxing Museum. Dean
of his own wrestling school. We'd like to see Leonardo da Vinci beat all
that, thank you very much.
In case this pick has many of you readers buffaloed, allow us to introduce
you to Buffalo Jim Barrier. He’s big. He’s brawny. He’s
bearded. He runs an auto and marine electrical service company, but
he looks like he’d be right at home in a wrestling ring – which makes perfect
sense, since he also runs a wrestling school and has launched his own wrestling
federation, dubbed (what else?) BWF, the Buffalo Wrestling Federation,
at Mahoney’s Silver Nugget in North Las Vegas. But what we really
want to hear are Buffalo Jim’s tales of all wrestlers he’s befriended through
the years, from Goldberg to “Stone Cold” Steve Austin, who can be seen
sporting a BWF T-shirt in Buffalo Jim’s portrait gallery on his personal
internet site. Nothing gets us newsroom wimps going like good wrestling
gossip.